Episodes

Collision Course (Year 1 / Episode 13)

ITC Press Release

"COLLISION COURSE" Original ITC press release Who is Arra? She is old - older than Earth itself - with a beauty that only age can bring. Commander Koenig's encounter with her is also an encounter with destiny. It all happens when the Moon is on a collision course with a planet many times its size.................. Alan Carter (NICK TATE) is the first to see her. She appears when his is flying an Eagle during a mission on which action has to be taken to blast an asteroid which would otherwise hit the Moon. When his mechanism jams, he is aware, though in an unconscious state, that he has been saved by the strange, aged figure of the woman, known later to be Arra (MARGARET LEIGHTON), Queen of the planet Astheria. But, one danger averted, an even more menacing threat appears. The Moon is on another collision course, this time with a massive planet many times the size of the Moon. Professor Bergman (BARRY MORSE) suggests a chain of nuclear charges, like mines moored in space, which would create a shockwave and change the planet's trajectory; a plan which is postponed when Sandra Benes (ZIENIA MERTON) comes up with the startling readings that some kind of life could exist there. Commander Koenig (MARTIN LANDAU) dare not waste time. A reconnaissance Eagle is prepared and he sets out to investigate, despite objections from Dr Helena Russell (BARBARA BAIN). Speeding towards the menacing planet, he finds himself drawn into the vast spaceship which is preceding it and comes face to face with Arra. She tells him: "I have been waiting a long time to meet you, John Koenig. We have expected you for many millions of years...................your destiny has always been our destiny .......... our separate planets have met in the body of Time for the great purpose of mutation...... the change shall reverberate through the galaxies and universes of eternity." But back on the moon, the collision now seems inevitable unless Operation Shockwave is put into operation. If it is, then Koenig must return to Moonbase and persuade them to change the plan. Can he exert his authority to do so? Or is Helena right in diagnosing radiation sickness, with hallucination and disorientation. Meanwhile, the planet Astheria is getting closer and closer....................... NB All spelling and punctuation as in the original. SCREENPLAY BY ANTHONY TERPILOFF DIRECTED BY RAY AUSTIN Special Guest Star MARGARET LEIGHTON with PRENTIS HANCOCK as PAUL MORROW CLIFTON JONES as DAVID KANO ZIENIA MERTON as SANDRA BENES ANTON PHILLIPS as DR. MATHIAS NICK TATE as ALAN CARTER ALEX SCOTT as AARCHON LAWRENCE trIMBLE as PILOT ABRAMS

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